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- adjective Alternative spelling of
postromantic .
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Examples
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The 21st century, she argues, is a post-romantic age of melancholy marriages.
Bella DePaulo: Don't Want to Divorce? Indulge Your Polyamory or Asexuality, Have Your Affairs, Live Apart Bella DePaulo 2011
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In this sense, Shelley's phrasing harbors an extreme limit case of "conditioned necessity" that only an environmental (as well as ethical) crisis like global warming, for instance, helps make felt in post-romantic retrospect.
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Romanticism: This collection of essays on the general topic of European romantic and post-romantic literature was established at the initiative of William P. Germano,
Notes on ''At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...'' 2005
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Rather, it was like the post-romantic period in the early 1920s: and end of a musical thread.
Music question. Ann Althouse 2005
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Rather, it was like the post-romantic period in the early 1920s: and end of a musical thread.
Music question. Ann Althouse 2005
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Such behavior, or variations on it, is wholly familiar and comprehensible where poets are concerned, in any post-romantic age.
The All-Star Victorian Bayley, John 1980
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There was the Schumann of "Dichterliebe," Opus 48, a song cycle so subtle, nuanced and concise, it almost seems post-romantic in nature.
Fore, right! 2010
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This substantial symphony is written in a late-romantic, or post-romantic idiom, and shows Walter to be capable of writing fiery and passionate music.
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As he saw it, music seemed to represent a choice between a dying post-romantic tradition and cold neoclassicism.
Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk 2009
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As he saw it, music seemed to represent a choice between a dying post-romantic tradition and cold neoclassicism.
Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk 2009
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